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Office workers - Has anyone here convinced their boss to let them install a Linux distro on their work desktop? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by ohshit604@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Going from Windows to Linux then back to windows sucks.

Edit; Going through the comments it seems it doesn’t matter so long as IT supports the operating system, which is fair, in my scenario I’m not involved with our systems-management/IT/developers unless it’s an update to the software we use.

My desktop at work is still Windows 10 and while it works, kinda, my keyboard shortcuts are almost entirely different, I’ve encountered numerous moments where switching tab either by alt-tabbing or by the taskbar not working at all forcing me to minimize everything till I find that tab, couple times it wouldn’t even boot.

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

I dredd the day they force a win 11 desktop on me.

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Convince?

Im a software dev. If you don't use linux or macos youre a weirdo

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you use macos but are deploying to Linux, you're also a weirdo.

+10 masochism points if you're using docker on MacOS as well

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, docker exists for mac?

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Some software branded as Docker for Mac exists for Mac.

Obviously Docker uses Linux kernel constructs not available on other platforms so on Mac (and Windows) they embed an entire Linux VM and attempt to integrate it with the host system storage, networking and resources.

This works about as well as it sounds, I/O performance in particular is terrible and trying to share folders between the host and the VM (to for example mount the code you're working on) is super slow and annoying

"But Macs are the best for development, they're so user friendly" - not even close lol

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Depends on what you work for specifically, at my current job most people use Windows, and it makes sense because our product will mainly be used on Windows, and some of them are windows only. But I also worked in many other places where we were deploying to Linux servers but the majority of devs were on Windows.